more supermarket news & analysis – Page 562
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Tesco in new profits warning as Dave Lewis promises not to cut corners in January
Tesco issued a profit warning today as CEO Dave Lewis “reset” the business to focus on service, availability and more competitive prices…
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Waitrose 'likely' to sever ties with Ocado, say analysts
Waitrose is “more likely than not” to sever its partnership with Ocado, with its notice to end the agreement…
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Archbishop of Canterbury and MPs call on on supermarkets to do more to tackle food poverty
Supermarkets have been urged to step up their battle against food waste, after a report by MPs and church leaders claimed supply chain inefficiencies in terms of redistributing surplus food was letting the poor go hungry.
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Matt Simister exonerated as Lewis rebuilds senior Tesco team
Group food sourcing director Matt Simister is set for a dramatic return to Tesco on Monday…
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Tesco's new lab to showcase latest in-store tech and new apps
Tesco has opened the doors to a new laboratory to demonstrate the power of the latest in-store technology…
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Black Friday puts supermarket sales back in the black
Black Friday put supermarket sales back in the black for the first time in more than four months…
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Sainsbury's 'dubstep dads' ad smashes one million views
A viral ad to showcase Sainsbury’s 2014 Christmas jumper range is taking social media by storm.
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Analysis & Features
Co-op Have Your Say survey results released at last
It was billed as the biggest piece of research and engagement in The Co-operative Group’s 150-year history…
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Comment & Opinion
2014 was a wake-up call for big four British supermarkets
The big four will be saying “good riddance” to yet another year. That is the price of taking one’s customers for granted…
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Tesco to assess impact of falling commodity prices on suppliers
Tesco is investigating the impact of falling commodity prices on its suppliers in a bid to secure better deals…
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Aldi joins chorus of Match & More complaints to ASA
Aldi has lodged a complaint against Morrisons’ Match & More price matching scheme with the ASA…
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Booths hits 30-store mark with new Barrowford shop
Booths has opened its 30th store, in Barrowford, Lancashire.
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Comment & Opinion
The big supermarkets need to open up and share information
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented shift in culture, both in business and society, towards opennes…
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Grocer 33
Asda Wolstanton: Grocer 33 store of the week
On Black Friday and Saturday, we opened at 8am, but people had queued from 4am…
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The Co-operative to increase spend on UK produce by £50m
The Co-operative Group has pledged to support British farmers by upping the amount of UK-grown meat, poultry, fruit & veg and dairy it sells.Currently spending about £450m a year on British own-brand goods, the business said the figure would rise to £500m under the plans.At present, almost all the business’s ...
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Morrisons to promote Christmas range with wrapping paper giveaway
Morrisons is giving away ‘Brussels sprouts design’ wrapping paper in select publications next week.
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M&S to introduce LED lighting to all food stores within two years
All M&S Food Halls will have LED lighting within two years, the retailer pledged this week.
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Tesco Direct Click & Collect orders subject to two-day delays
Tesco suffered another blow this week as its non-food website buckled under the volume of Christmas orders.
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Full review of business rates announced by Osborne in Autumn Statement
The government will conduct a full review of the structure of business rates, although it will not report until the budget in 2016.
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Comment & Opinion
Lewis ticking off his ‘to do’ list
Such was the scale of its problems and so abrupt his arrival, that some analysts had not even finished writing their “to do list”